Tuning Folks

John Chalmers wrote :

>(The Japanese!) Kawai, Akai and many others
>fanatically refuse to let their instruments be retuned.
>They're adamant about it to the point of psychosis. The
>behaviour is almost Manson-like in is self-destructivness,
>yet they persist.
>As a result I won't buy Kawai or Akai synths. Let 'em
>rot: they can come out with a synth that does
>everything buy makes coffee and I still wouldn't even
>use it as a boat anchor.

The Akai S1000 & S1100 samplers let you access up to 200 different
'programs' at the same time, each consisting of up to 200 'keygroups'. To
each keygroup can be assigned one to four samples, individually tunable (in
cents!), and the same sine wave of 254 samples can be assigned to all of
them - in that case you certainly can't complain about waste of RAM ! I'd
be surprised if other samplers don't offer that facility.

I like my Akai S1100 very much, I think it's a well designed machine that
deserves its popularity. And correct me if I'm wrong but wasn't Yamaha's
TX81Z the first microtunable MIDI synth, back in 1987 ?

Best regards VK

* vincent kenis * phone (322) 644 07 14 * fax (322) 648 83 69 *



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